Cast
Navid Negahban
Acting
Cast
Navid Negahban
Known for
Acting
From
Mashhad, Iran
Also known as 네이비드 네가반, نوید نگهبان
Biography
Navid Negahban is an Iranian-American actor, producer, and director whose work spans four decades, three continents, and over 166 credits in film, television, and video games. Born in Mashhad, Iran, he discovered theater at eight years old. He left Iran in 1985, traveling through Turkey and Bulgaria before arriving at a refugee camp in Ingelheim, Germany, where he applied for asylum. He spent eight years performing with the Rheinland-Pfalz Theater in Kaiserslautern before moving to the United States in 1993. He is fluent in Persian, English, and German. He is best known for playing Abu Nazir in Showtime's Homeland (2011–2013), Amahl Farouk / Shadow King in FX's Legion (2017–2019), The Sultan in Disney's live-action Aladdin (2019), General Abdul Rashid Dostum in 12 Strong (2018), Sheikh Al-Obodi in American Sniper (2014), Faraz Hamzad in FX's The Old Man (2022–2024), and Abbas Mansuri in Netflix's The Night Agent (2025). As a producer, his film Baba Joon won five Ophir Awards including Best Picture at the Israeli Film Academy. As a director, his short film The Apple Tree won Best Short Film at the Japan Indies Film Festival (2025). He received a BAFTA Games Award nomination for Best Performer for his work on 1979 Revolution: Black Friday (2017). He is represented by Innovative Artists. Official website: https://navidnegahban.com
Aladdin
as Sultan
American Sniper
as Sheikh Al-Obeidi
12 Strong
as General Dostum
Brothers
as Murad
American Assassin
as Minister Behurz
Kandahar
as Mohammad 'Mo' Doud
Sniper: Ghost Shooter
as Mothershed
Pretty Persuasion
as Mr. Azzouni
Charlie Wilson's War
as Refugee Camp Translator
Powder Blue
as Doctor Brooks
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
as Dr. Robert Stadler
Sand Castle
as Kadeer
The Stoning of Soraya M.
as Ali
Brain on Fire
as Dr. Najjar
The Power of Few
as Sahel
The Moment
as Malik Jamil
Damascus Cover
as Sarraj
Broken
as Keith
Sitting in Bars with Cake
as Isaac
Dead Air
as Abir
Richard III
as Sir James Tyrrel
Words and Pictures
as Rashid
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
as Mehran (voice)
War Stories
as Al Qaeda Rebel at Bridge
Hotel Tehran
as Qasim
In Full Bloom
as The Shepherd (voice)
Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero
as Mohammad Mohammad-Mohammadi
Dark Corners
as Karim
London Arabia
as Mo
Murder 101: If Wishes Were Horses
as Sheik Ahmad
The Fallen Ones
as Ammon
Tehranto
as Narrator (voice)
Day One
as Dr. Nasir
Stellina Blue
as Amir Keshavarz
Diplomacy
as Iranian Foreign Minister
Price for Freedom
as Victor Daniels
Saving Jessica Lynch
as Fedayeen Colonel
The First Goodbye
Baba Joon
as Itzhak
Carving a Life
as Dr. Kasem
Djinn
as Djinn
The Ambassador's Wife
as Ambassador
Liberation
as Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Saat des Terrors
as Kashif Baqri
Am Abgrund
as Tofik Gasimov
Boundaries
as Trombonist
Osprey
as Adam Zakaria
In the Garden of Tulips
Heal
as Abdul
Becoming the Enemy
as Victor Daniels